Author: Steven Attewell

Last week, the online book club of my new book (available to the reading public here and here) discussed how the War on Poverty came around on direct job creation too late to have an impact on the political process. This week, I’m going to look at the last best opportunity for direct job creation in the 20th […]

Last week (although it was more than a week ago), the online book club of my new book (available to the reading public here and here) discussed the most controversial chapter of the book, which argues that the New Deal ended the Great Depression. This week, I’ll be discussing how direct job creation was suddenly abandoned during the debate […]

Last week the online book club of my new book (available to the reading public here and here), discussed how direct job creation programs built a place for themselves within the New Deal’s vision of a social security system, even if that place was through a different bill than the Social Security Act. This week, I’m going to […]

As I announced last week, my first academic book has officially been published (available to the reading public here and here) and to celebrate, I’m running an online book club where we’ll discuss the book a chapter-per-week. This week, we’ll be discussing the Introduction, which goes all the way from the social policies of Thomas Cromwell to the […]